Parent Center Mental Health Counselor

Division/Department: Health & Wellness Neighborhood Resource Center

Work Schedule: 35 hrs/week

Full Time/Part Time: Full Time

Regular/Temporary/Per Diem: Regular

Hourly/Salary: Salary $60$ $63k

Exemption Status: NonExempt

Organizational Overview
Henry Street Settlement opens doors of opportunity to enrich lives and expand human progress for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social services arts and health care programs. Building on its 125year legacy of innovation and effective programming Henry Street offers more than 50 programs and is one of New York Citys largest social service agencies.

Health & Wellness Division

Our Parent Center (PC) is housed at the Dale Jones Burch Neighborhood Center a newly renovated historic firehouse which operates as a satellite program of Henry Street Settlements Health and Wellness Division. The Parent Center is a privatelyfunded free parenting education and support program that provide 6 8 and/or 12week parenting education and/or support groups 1time workshops onsite at the Parent Center and throughout Henry Streets Lower East Side campus including SchoolBased Mental Health Clinics family shelters daycare local schools and online at Zoom. During the COVID19 pandemic Parent Center staff/intern(s) have been working in a hybrid model offering groups/workshops online via Zoom and onsite by appointment or walkins.

The role of the PC Social Worker is to conduct comprehensive biopsychosocial intakes and to enroll parents into a range of parenting education and/or support groups workshops and/or to conduct shortterm parent coaching/brief psychotherapy/dyadic parentchild intervention(s) 612 sessions) and/or 1time parenting consultations and to facilitate/cofacilitate groups and workshops. It is also to further develop group and/or workshop topics/content spanning from pregnancy to early childhood adolescence and early adulthood and in response to the changing needs of the community.

Qualifications:

• LMSW LCSW MHCLP or LMHC preferred
• MSW and BSWlevel social workers will be considered
• 12 years of experience providing parenting education/support services to parents expectant mothers and/or children ages 018; capacity to work independently and/or with other Parent Center staff/intern(s) to facilitate parenting groups and/or to develop and conduct workshops and also brief psychotherapy parent coaching and/or dyadic parentchild intervention(s) 612 weeks).
• Familiarity with shortterm brief psychotherapy parent coaching and/or dyadic parentchild or parentinfant intervention(s).
• Strong assessment skills and knowledge of infant early childhood/childhood and/or adolescent development issues family systems theory and/or healthy parenting skills. Familiarity with Family Court and ACS/child welfare system public benefits income support programs and housing issues helpful.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and documentation skills; ability to work collaboratively with NRC/Parent Center staff/intern(s) case managers health enrollers and/or community health workers to meet the biopsychosocial needs of parents/families.
• Computer proficiency including database management (Foothold Awards Microsoft Office Excel).
• Bilingual language skills preferred (Spanish or Chinese) and not required.
• Regular work hours are MF 9 AM 5 AM; 1 evening per week 117 PM) as needed and also 8 AM4 PM as needed when conducting early AM workshops at HSS School Based Mental Health Clinic(s) (SBMHC) location(s).

Responsibilities:

• Respond to PC Central Intake Calls and referrals. Conduct biopsychosocial comprehensive intake assessments and enroll parents in groups/workshops and/or provide onetime parent consultations and/or parent coaching/brief psychotherapy/parentchild or parentinfant dyadic interventions 6 to 12 sessions).
• Facilitate and/or CoFacilitate a range of parenting groups (Parenting Journey Ackerman Institute for the Family Bright Beginnings Active Parenting Now! Parenting Children with Special Needs Parenting Discoveries etc. and workshops on a range of topics both onsite offsite and/or remotely online at Zoom.
• Work collaboratively with DJBNC Program Director Parent Center staff/intern(s) case managers health enrollers and community health workers to assess a parent and/or childs presenting problems and concerns and provide referrals as needed for case management health enrollment outpatient mental health workforce development etc. and/or to local communitybased organizations for additional services.
• Provide crisis intervention as needed.
• Participate in individual/group supervision/team meetings; timely documentation of confidential records (intakes followup case notes group notes) data entry/database maintenance; assist with preparation of flyers for special events and/or data collection for grant funding reports and/or MailChimp newsletters.
• Help to organize and recruit program participants for quarterly special events such as Back to School Mothers Day and so on.
• Advocate in writing/by phone when appropriate to ensure parental/family needs are addressed; other duties as assigned by supervisor. Willingness to work in a hybrid onsite/offsite manner; 3 days onsite and 2 days remote following completion of training/orientation.

Essential Physical Job Functions:

• Able to use a computer to access Zoom and to communicate with clients remotely.